A research administrator at the University of Kentucky has secured a legal exemption from his employer’s AI mandate on the grounds that using tools like ChatGPT would violate his humanist beliefs.
Anthropic says it plans to commit five percent of its shares to a newly created “Public Benefit Fund,” a move that would need stockholder approval before taking effect after the company’s hotly anticipated IPO which could occur as soon as November.
Dario Amodei’s Anthropic, which has spent the last week pushing a campaign of fear about AI advancement, has revealed it built a “wet lab” to conduct AI-driven biology experiments.
What do the Federal Reserve, the Patriot Act, Net Zero, COVID lockdown policies, foreign disinformation, and the proposed, globally-coordinated AI slowdown have in common?
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call for outside monitors to police the AI industry has run into questions about how independent those monitors really are. The watchdog Amodei mentions, METR, is deeply connected to both Amodei’s Anthropic and the Effective Altruism movement.
